“As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American.”
“...childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun. (Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when I inquired about the Great-Experience-You-Are-Missing.)”
“You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding.”
“Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would noteIn me a beauty that was never mine,How first you knew me in a book I wrote,How first you loved me for a written line....”
“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.”
“Another friend of mine once told me in a deep depression that his marriage was "like running a preschool with a roommate you used to date." Nice.”